PDA Southeast Chapter
Chapter's Region:
Kentucky / Alabama / Florida / Georgia / Mississippi / North Carolina / South Carolina / Tennessee / Virginia (Southern)
The Parenteral Drug Association's Southeast Chapter (PDASE) is proud to encourage a cooperative spirit among the medical, pharmaceutical, and clinical professions. PDASE aims to foster and advance the art and science of pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and biotechnology. As part of that effort, we especially encourage cooperative spirit among PDASE members and professionals in these fields.
PDASE provides and disseminates information relating to technology in the pharmaceutical, medical device, biotechnology, and clinical industries by promoting high manufacturing standards and encourages the sharing of scientific and technical knowledge.
Member at Large
- Nathan Blazei, Senior Director, Regulatory Affairs, Kymanox
- Crystal Booth, Microbiology Director, Thermal Fisher
- Michelle Dennis, BioMonitoring Application Specialist, MilliporeSigma
- Daphne Duckwork, Manufacturing Specialist II, Resilience
- Kim Sobien, Senior Consultant, ValSource, Inc.
- James Wamsley, Microbiology Consultant, ValSource, Inc.
- Jared Wine, Manager, ValSource, Inc.
Chapter Events
Sponsors
PDASE has seen our Chapter grow in membership and member engaagement. PDASE is grateful to its dedicated members and sponsors for their continued interest, participation and support. Without sponsorships, PDASE would not be able to offer multiple, inexpensive events for its members. There are many benefits and savings to considering sponsorship of PDASE.
Reach over 3,000 Pharmaceutical Professionals by being a PDA SE Chapter Sponsor!
2024 Sponsorship Opportunities
For more details and to renew or establish sponsorship, please email info@pdase.org. PDASE appreciates your consideration to support the Chapter.
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About Us
PDASE's Executive Board and Committee chairs consist of professionals in the biotech, pharmaceutical, medical device, and clinical industries. The Executive Board works with Committee Heads to deliver events and collaboration with industry. The Southeast Chapter's region covers eleven states including NC, SC, VA, TN, GA, FL, KY, AL, and MS.
Events are held throughout the region to support PDA's mission of Connecting People, Science and Regulation. Events include Dinner & Dialogue's, Facility Tours, Full-Day Conferences, and Networking Events.
Get Involved
Membership Committee
- Develops strategy for increasing local chapter membership
- Outreach to expiring members
- Local Chapter signups at events
- Communication at National events about the local chapter
- Manage the PDA table at Chapter conferences
Approximate Time Commitment
Four to eight hours per month.
Programs Committee
- Organizes and executes major PDASE events.
- Engages with FDA, Industry and other regulatory authorities to speak at conferences
- Develop themes for each conference based on industry feedback
- Spring Conference
- Fall Conference
Approximate Time Commitment
Twenty to Forty hours per event the committee member leads (Likely to include all events)
Student Outreach Committee
- Supports student chapters at local Universities
- Provide chapter updates to PDA for inclusion in the PDA Letter.
- Develops/Delivers scholarship programs
- Evaluates feedback from students and faculty
- Plans specific events for students
- Facility Tours
- Speakers from the Industry
- Meet the Professionals Night
Approximate Time Commitment
Four to eight hours per month.
Networking/Events Committee
- Provides full event support (planning, scheduling, coordinating, and support monthly events for the local chater
- Monthly Networking
- Dinner & Dialogue Events
- Facility Tour
- Planning Session
- Collaborate with Chapter liasions to promote events for the PDASE Chapter
Approximate Time Commitment
Eight to ten hours per month. Additional time commitment is required at the planning session and the beginning of the year.
Communications Committee
- Develops and delivers local PDA communications including:
- The PDASE Newsletter
- Upcoming PDASE Event Calendar
- Writes articles for local and national activities within PDA
- Manage social media websites
- PDA Southeast Chapter Connect Page
Approximate Time Commitment
Four to eight hours per week.
Chapter Outreach Committee
- Plans, schedules, coordinates, and supports monthly events for the local chater
- Monthly Networking
- Dinner & Dialogue Events
- Facility Tour
- Collaborate with Chapter liasions to promote events for the PDASE Chapter
Approximate Time Commitment
Eight to ten hours per month. Additional time commitment is required at the planning session and the beginning of the year.
Chapter Officers
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Austin CaudlePresident
Redica Systems
Austin Caudle, MSc, MRQA is a Senior Enterprise Sales Executive with Redica Systems, a software company that provides regulatory and compliance data intelligence to Quality & regulatory experts around the world. He has over 20 years of experience as a business leader accelerating growth, profitability, and value in the highly competitive biotech, pharma, and medical device markets. His industry experience spans the many facilities and processes necessary to bring a drug/biologic/device to market – from the laboratory and R&D through manufacturing. Prior to joining Redica Systems, Austin served as a SME at Kelly Science & Clinical and held positions at Fortune 500 companies, IQVIA and ThermoFisher Scientific, and leadership roles at NSF Health Sciences and Charles River.
Mr. Caudle studied Nutrition and Food Science at Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama USA. He holds a BSc in Nutrition and Food Science and an MSc in Food Science and is published in several scientific journals for academic research. Austin has served on the Southeast Chapter Board of Directors, participated in multiple program planning committees as a contributor/moderator, an author/contributor to the PDA Letter, and was recognized as a leader in the Volunteer Spotlight with the Parenteral Drug Association (PDA), an invited speaker on AI and Data Science in Next Generation Clinical Development at the Precision Medicine World Conference (PMWC), and twice served as Co-Chair for the International Pharmaceutical Excipients Council (IPEC) World Conference Planning Committee. He is a member of PDA, ISPE, AAPS, RAPS, and RQA professional associations.
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Casey PoirierPresident-Elect
STERIS Corporation
Casey Bailey Poirier is a North Carolina native and an Account Manager with STERIS Corporation Life Sciences Division. Her current responsibilities include providing contamination control solutions related to disinfection, process cleaning, and sterility assurance for the biotech, pharmaceutical, and medical device industries. Casey leverages over 12 years of experience in QC Chemistry, QC Microbiology, and Validation roles. Prior to joining STERIS, she served as a Lead Validation Engineer for Stallergenes Greer where she oversaw the site process simulation program, led projects to continuously improve validation and quality system programs, and enhance equipment performance capabilities. During her tenure as a validation professional, she became well versed with PDA Technical Reports as a guideline for compliance during these initiatives. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Biology at Wingate University and Master of Business Administration in Project Management. In addition, she holds Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification from University of North Carolina at Charlotte. -
Jessica BlombergSecretary
Quality CMC Consulting
Jessica Blomberg owns Quality CMC Consulting, a pharmaceutical development consulting company, focusing on delivering flexible and phase appropriate support to emerging and established Biotech/Pharma/Medical device clients, and empowering compliant and science driven decisions that are right first time. She assists clients with due diligence M&A activities and virtual company design and function. She was named 2020 Triangle Business Journal Life Science Consultant of the Year. Selected clients include Chiesi USA, HemoShear Therapeutics, Icosavax, Locus Biosciences, Notable Labs, Roivant, and Activated Research Company as a strategic advisor. Prior to starting Quality CMC Consulting in Dec-2012, she worked for small-to-mid sized companies in RTP, NC: Erimos (Pharmaceutical Development), Inspire (Sterile Manufacturing) and BioCryst (QA). During this time for seven years, she was on the executive committee serving as Past-Chair, Chair, Co-Chair, Secretary, and Treasurer for the non-profit NC Discussion Group of AAPS. Jessica received her Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from Duke University in 2003, is a Board Member of the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation, and a PDA member since 2012. She is the co-inventor of multiple patents and provides training to the industry. -
Amanda Bishop McFarlandTreasurer
Valsource, LLC
Amanda is a Senior Consultant for ValSource and in this role assists companies with the design and implementation of CGMPs, Microbiology, and Quality Risk Management programs. She specializes in the creation and implementation of risk management programs, contamination control strategies, developing risk-based strategies and risk facilitation. Prior to joining ValSource, Amanda worked to integrate risk management program within a multi-national company by developing the procedures required and training the organization in the execution of consistent risk management tools. Ms. McFarland currently serves as the PDA QRM interest group co-lead, PDA Membership Advisory Committee (MAC) co-chair, PDA QRM/Aseptic processing co-chair and a faculty member of the Quality Risk Management Certificate Training Series at PDA training institute.
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